Local broom maker?

[genevra-mcneil.livejournal.com]

This may be totally off-the-wall but I'm looking to buy a handmade broom and would prefer to buy one locally. Does anyone know of a local(ish) broom maker? I have a car and am willing to drive quite a ways -- an hour or so -- so you could define "locally" in a very broad sense. All the online places seem to be out of Kentucky or N.C. 

Comments

[syntheticnature.livejournal.com]

I don't know of any such place but, what's the name, the chair re-caning place on Elm St. across from Subway and the ex-Carberry's/O'Natural's/Green Tomato space seems like the kind of people who would. The Caning Shoppe (http://www.caningshoppe.com/), that's the name.

[syntheticnature.livejournal.com]

Oh! I thought of something from the distant past.... going to Old Sturbridge Village and watching them make brooms. I bet they sell them in the Gift Shoppe!

[genevra-mcneil.livejournal.com]

Oooh! Good thought! And if they don't, Plimoth might.... Thanks.

[theodosia.livejournal.com]

They definitely sell brooms made on the premises in the gift shop. And I know they've offered classes in making the brooms in one of the workshops, using reproduction machines and techniques -- real broom straw, et cetera!

[whaler.livejournal.com]

Try Diagon Alley.

[genevra-mcneil.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I'm out of Floo Powder...

[pearlythebunny.livejournal.com]

http://justameretreefarm.com/about/brooms/

[genevra-mcneil.livejournal.com]

COOL! Thanks!

[plumtreeblossom.livejournal.com]

Try the gift shops of Salem. You know, the whole witch motif, brooms...

You could make a nice afternoon of it, with this nice weather.

[curiositykt.livejournal.com]

Shaker village in Canterbury NH. though I bet you can find one closer.

[surrealestate.livejournal.com]

Out of curiosity, is this for a wedding?

[genevra-mcneil.livejournal.com]

No, though that's the most obvious reason. I have just decided that I want to fill my house with handmade things -- particularly useful objects that have been made with deliberation -- as opposed to factory-produced things. And I need a new broom.